Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “η”

ARTICLE BY O. B. “EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF STATES?”

Die Grenzboten, 1915, No. 9 (March 3, 1915).

The article “European Alliance of States?” is an open letter of a certain0. B.to ProfessorG. Heymansof Groningen.

This professor, with four other persons, form a committee calling itself “the European alliance of states”. This committee has published Heymans’s appeal: “To the Citizens of the Belligerent States”, to which the open letter inDie Grenzbotenis a reply.

The open letter, inter alia, raises the question ofcolonies(p. 270). “Is their ‘internal independence’ not also desirable? And are not the Indians, Negroes and Tatars also fully ‘equal’ with Britons, Frenchmen and Russians?”... (270).